The Leader's Greatest Return
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Merry Christmas, podcast listeners! As we're releasing this, we know you're probably sitting around the Christmas tree unwrapping gifts with friends and family. So, we wanted to give you a gift as well!
Are you ready for this? On January 28th, John Maxwell will release his new book, The Leader's Greatest Return. But, today on the podcast, we're giving you the entire first chapter from the audio book, read by the man himself! As our podcast listener, you get to be the first to hear John read from his new book!
Sit back, grab some hot chocolate, and enjoy chapter one of John's new book, The Leader's Greatest Return! Be sure to preorder your copy of The Leader's Greatest Return by visiting JohnMaxwell.com/GreatestReturn. You will not be disappointed!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, Mark Cole here. Welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast and Merry Christmas. |
| 0:17.6 | Ho ho ho! Jake, that's for you, buddy. Seriously, Merry Christmas. Today is December 25th and right now, |
| 0:27.1 | you're probably unwrapping gifts with friends, family. So we wanted to give you a gift today as well. |
| 0:33.5 | We've never done this before, but this is from us the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast team. |
| 0:40.1 | Today we're giving you chapter one of the audio book from John Maxwell's brand new book, |
| 0:45.6 | The Leaders Greatest Return. Hey, this book is not even released yet. It's going to release |
| 0:51.0 | actually January the 28th, 2020. That's right, it's not out yet, but you get to be one of the first |
| 0:59.1 | ones to hear this book. You can pre-order the book right now by visiting John Maxwell.com |
| 1:06.3 | forward slash greatest return. We hope you'll have a wonderful Christmas, a happy holiday. |
| 1:12.0 | Now sit back, grab some hot chocolate, and enjoy chapter one of John's new book, The Leaders Greatest |
| 1:18.7 | Return. Chapter one, identifying leaders. Find them so you can develop them. |
| 1:36.0 | One of my favorite activities when I speak is answering specific questions from the leaders in |
| 1:41.4 | the audience. Recently at a conference put on by Chick-fil-A, someone asked how I develop good |
| 1:47.9 | leaders. First I responded, you need to know what a good leader looks like. I know that may sound |
| 1:56.7 | simplistic, but it's true. And I found that most people have a difficult time describing what a |
| 2:03.6 | good leader or a good potential leader looks like. Leadership experts and authors James Kuzis and |
| 2:12.0 | Barry Posner said, our images of whose a leader and whose not are all mixed up in our preconceived |
| 2:21.1 | notions about what leadership is and isn't. How can people find something that they can't identify? |
| 2:29.7 | As a speaker I do a lot of traveling and often my host will send a driver to pick me up from the |
| 2:36.3 | airport. Over the years I found that there are two types of people who look for me. The first |
| 2:42.8 | ends near the baggage claim area holding a sign or an iPad showing my name. Now I have to go over and |
| 2:49.6 | find that person and identify myself. The second type of person comes over and finds me as I step |
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